Agreed, I just like complicated characters. And I'm also old enough to know that fiction is fiction :' ) Even tho far too many people seem incapable of that these days. He has good sides and bad sides like everyone, but his moral compass is very off kilter.
Honestly, I will choose a character like that so many times, because they are complex, they make me think, consider. Bad characters were bad and complex to teach people something, not romanticize them and justify each one of their wrongs. But we reach a dark moment of fiction rn
Yeah that's Mikhail. You both sympathize with him and want to remove yourself from him, I think.